A French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal vase
List: $7,600.00
A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal vase. The vase is raised by a beautiful mottled ormolu base with fine wrap around berried laurel and foliate bands. The beautiful baluster shaped Baccarat crystal body... — Read More
A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal vase. The vase is raised by a beautiful mottled ormolu base with fine wrap around berried laurel and foliate bands. The beautiful baluster shaped Baccarat crystal body displays remarkable fluted and cut diamond designs, and striking richly chased swaging blooming flower garlands tied at rosettes and a wrap around Coeur de Rai band at the curved neck also repeated at the top rim. — Read Less
- Item # 13149
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H: 20 in L: 6.5 in D: 6.5 in
H: 51 cm L: 17 cm D: 17 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Baccarat Crystal, Ormolu
- Louis XVI st. Read More
- Baccarat Read More
In 1764 King Louis XV of France gave permission to found a glassworks in the town of Baccarat. Production consisted of window panes, mirrors and stemware until 1816 when the first crystal oven went into operation. By that time over 3000 workers were employed at the site.
Baccarat was famous and requested by many royal houses and received its first royal commission in 1823. This began a lengthy line of commissions for royalty and heads of state throughout the world. In 1855 Baccarat won its first gold medal at the Worlds Fair in Paris after which they began to mark their creations towards the end of the 19th century.
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